Why Windows Phone 7 "Mango" is bango; first look at Windows 8

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	Why Windows Phone 7 "Mango" is bango Microsoft's Mango release of Windows Phone 7 qualifies as a Big Deal. Last week, the company made available the beta software development kit for developers, with production release set for Fall 2011, not quite a year after Windows Phone 7 debuted on the first handsets designed for it. It's likely a new generation of smartphones will be announced then, too, from new handset partners. Read More WHITE PAPER: BMC Benefits of an ITIL Help Desk in the Cloud You can implement help desk processes based on ITIL easily with reduced up-front costs and automatic upgrades. Used by more than 72,500 companies worldwide, the Force.com platform is the most widely used Cloud platform in the world. Read More In this Issue First look at Windows 8: Tiles instead of windows and real multi-tasking Microsoft's browser share slide accelerates as IE9 fails to hold users Why Microsoft and Citrix need each other Steve Ballmer: Office 365 to launch in June Should Microsoft buy Nokia? New malware scanner finds 5% of Windows PCs infected Developers find a lot to love in Windows Phone 7 Mango Nokia confident about first Windows Phone arriving in Q4 Microsoft: Windows 8 won't require a new PC WHITE PAPER: F5 Networks Wide Area Application Architecture and Exchange 2010 Massive consolidation can lead to single points of failure which could interrupt service of critical applications. ESG believes that this risk should be addressed by building applications on a Wide Area Application Architecture (WAAA) foundation, spreading applications across multiple data centers. Learn More! First look at Windows 8: Tiles instead of windows and real multi-tasking Yes, Microsoft is late to the game in tablets. Redmond tried pitching Windows 7 for touch screens without a lot of success, and refused to port Windows Phone 7 to tablets, insisting that a full desktop operating system was needed. And by the time Windows 8 comes out - probably next year - Apple's iPad and Google's Android will probably have the market cornered. Read More Microsoft's browser share slide accelerates as IE9 fails to hold users Internet Explorer's usage share again dipped last month, even as Microsoft's newest browser, IE9, posted record gains, a Web metrics company said. Read More Why Microsoft and Citrix need each other Desktop virtualization company Citrix made news last week with an overhaul of its major product lines and the introduction of "Project Olympus," a cloud infrastructure stack based on open source software. But pretty high up in CEO Mark Templeton's keynote at Citrix Synergy Conference 2011 in San Francisco was a big shout out to Microsoft. Read More WHITE PAPER: Aerohive A Practical approach to Wireless 2.0 Creating "Wi-Fi that works" is a tall order given the breadth of client and application types, the speed and complexity of 802.11n, high-density environments, etc., controller-based vendors cannot live up to their promises of Ethernet-like determinism. Read now! Steve Ballmer: Office 365 to launch in June Steve Ballmer said Microsoft's cloud productivity service will launch next month. Read More Should Microsoft buy Nokia? Nokia's otherwise moribund stock spiked upwards this morning on rumors that it was about to be acquired by Microsoft. As is usually the case, this rumor was indeed false, dismissed quite rapidly by a Nokia official. But I think such an acquisition might indeed make sense for Microsoft, although, depending upon the actual price, such could be a long shot no matter what. Read More New malware scanner finds 5% of Windows PCs infected One in every 20 Windows PCs whose users turned to Microsoft for cleanup help were infected with malware, Microsoft said this week. Read More WHITE PAPER: Diskeeper Corporation NEW Diskeeper 2011 Pro Premier Edition Diskeeper 2011 Pro Premier edition provides essential performance and efficiency increases for power workstation users as well as all the features of the Professional edition. Learn more! Developers find a lot to love in Windows Phone 7 Mango The Windows Phone 7 Mango release, due this Fall, adds a lot to Microsoft's mobile OS, say a group of enterprise mobile programmers. Read More Nokia confident about first Windows Phone arriving in Q4 Nokia has "increased confidence" that the first of its smartphones with Windows Phone will ship in the fourth quarter, the company said on Tuesday. Read More Microsoft: Windows 8 won't require a new PC Having learned its lesson the hard way with Windows Vista, Microsoft offered assurances Thursday that its upcoming Windows 8 operating system won't require users to buy a new PC. Read More
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